Inside the article that I read and studied this weekend, “A Black School is not supposed to Win” black teamwork at Howard University, written by Jermaine Scott, I learned of the forces that had a grip and power over NCAA sports, especially soccer, inside the United States. I learned about terms such as “black teammate” and “coloniality” inside sports during the reading that was based on the exclusionary recruitment practices and of NCAA sports teams and its commitment to a diasporic sociality through new forms of justice imagined to resist the criminalization of black athletes as the article states. Inside this article, one quote that I really enjoyed reading that summed up the process of the article which was to establish its racism that is linked to a political and social system of belief inside society is one the bases it’s connection of a true problem. According to Scott, “soccer’s global reach and centrality to black life throughout the diaspora provides an opportunity to deconstruct the coloniality of sport—the way modern sport, and soccer in particular, is constituted by racial logics of white superiority and black subordination”. To understand what this quote is representing and how to understand it from Scott’s article, we must first look into the basis and meaning of the terms “coloniality of sport”, “black teammate”, and “black subordination”. According to the article, “coloniality of sport” can be defined as a concept that centers modern sport as a cultural accomplice of the nation-state that reproduces racial hierarchies of white superiority and nonwhite subjugation. This is important to look at from the quote that I presented above as this is a major form of cultural accomplice that splits modern sports into a non-diverse region of racial hierarchies that causes white supremacy and nonwhite support within the realm of sports. I learned this has become a major function in US soccer as it demonstrates a high hierarchical non-diffusion system throughout modern day sporting cultures. According to the article, “black teammate” can be represented as a form of black cultural politics that has gone nominally and conceptually unmarked in the history of black athletic protest. This can be seen throughout history due to the lack of importance media sources and commercial/economic branding has had on the black community as a whole due to their “black cultural politics”. Black subordination can be seen as not relying on National boarders to understand and respond to human suffering.
-Joshua Joyce
